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JULIUS F. VOGT, OF ST. LOUIS MISSOURI.

BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 635,212, dated October17, 1899.

Application filed May 27, 1899. Serial No. 718,559. (No model.)

tion involves a certain peculiar construction by which the barrel isprovided with a double sheathing or wall, thus providing a spacesurrounding the inner sheathing or wall, in which space non-conductingmaterial may be packed, thus effectually to protect the con tents of thebarrel. I

This specification is the disclosure of one defines the actual scopethereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through the barrel; and Fig. 2 is aplan view of the barrel, the top or cover of the barrel being removed.

The barrel has an outer wall 3, constructed of staves in the usualmanner and sustained by head-hoops4 and bilge-hoops 5. The bottom of theouter wall 3 is provided with a cover 6, the edges of which are beveled,so as to fit against the bevel or chamfer of the staves, as indicated inFig. 1, and the top of the outer wall 3 is provided with a similar cover7 Sustained within the outer wall 3 is the inner wall 8 of the barrel,which is also constructed of staves and strengthened by the head-hoops 9and bilge-hoops 1-0. The ends of the staves forming the wall 8 bearrespectively against the covers 6 and 7, and the inner wall is spacedfrom the outer wall by means of rings or annuli 11, which are engaged incrozes formed in the inner faces of the staves of theouter Wall 3 afterthe manner of the usual crozes of barrel-staves. Heads 12 are fitted inthe inner wall 8 in the usual manner. By means of this construction theinner wall or package 8 may be made to contain the goods to be shippedor stored, and the space between the two walls, as well as between thetwo heads or covers 6 and '7,

may or may not be filled with the non-conducting material, as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A barrel,comprising an inner wall, heads .fitted within the inner wallrespectively at the ends thereof and closing the inner wall, annuliencircling the inner wall and respectively at the ends thereof, an outerwall having crozes formed in its inner face, the crozes receiving theouter edges of the annuli and the outer Wall encircling the inner ,wall,and heads or covers fitted in the respective extremities of the outerwall to cover the heads of the inner wall.

JULIUS F. VOGT. Witnesses:

ALBERT HAVERPORTH, WILLIAM HOERMANN.

